QLIVE EVENT
OPERATICN HARDTAGK
1.
The OLIVE device was detonated on a barge off Janet islands)
Enivetok Atoll, at 0820M, 23 July 1958. The cloud rose +
and the base was estimated at 15,0CO feet.
2.
The yield was
The P2V aircraft reported over Alvin at O900M, at 1,000 fest,
and it was vectored to Keith, to Yvonne, to Leroy, to Wilma, to Leroy.
Only background was recorded.
Ths northern part of the atoll was cleared
slowly, and the highest reading, 3.5 mr/hr, was recorded abeam the zround
zero point at 0955M.
Re-entry h ur was declared at 1000M, and the P2V
was vectored out of the lagoon on westerly and northeasterly radials.
3.
The helicopter survey took off at 1038M.
was made over Janet at 25 feet:
40
The highest reading
600 mr/hr.
Fallout was forecast along a bearing of 300 degrees, but the
wind pattern shift more to the scuth in the lower altitudes.
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